It seems like there is no end to the good news from the gr.dano camp. Actress Anna Paquin (any True Blood fans out there?) dons their “Mya” dress on the cover of the Los Angeles arts and entertainment magazine, Venice.

Congrats again Jill and Brian!

Attention San Francisco-based Fashion Journalism students (or anyone else who might be interested): The SF lifestyle publication 7×7 Magazine is looking for interns for Fall 2010.

Candidates must be students (either on summer break or currently enrolled in classes; graduated seniors do not count) and must be available to work 2-3 full days each week. The program will start in September and end in December.

If interested, submit a resume and 3 writing samples to 7×7 Assistant Editor Allison McCarthy (amccarthy@hartlemedia.com) no later than August 1. Please no cover letters. Duties will include everything from fact checking and researching to story writing. Job responsibilities will be discussed in detail if chosen for an interview.

7×7 Magazine [Official Website]

Remember Steven Oo’s structural knitwear work from last February’s fashion week? Well, the alum is at it again with two spreads in Novo and Reflex magazine.

Check it out:

Reflex Magazine [Official Website]

Novo SF [Official Website]

You might see some familiar fashion designs featured In the July/August issue of the online magazineCoco Eco Magazine — and by familiar I am referring to a photo spread that features the work of alums Richelle Valenzuela, Kara Sennett, and Amanda Cleary (who showed at September 2009 New York Fashion Week), as well as Aimee Aikin whose collection was featured in the Neiman Marcus windows at last year’s Fashion’s Night Out.

Launched in October 2008 by Anna Griffin, Coco Eco Magazine is a digital multi-media lifestyle brand celebrating sustainable fashion, beauty, celebrity, and culture. A big thank you from the School of Fashion to Michelle Llanos, Coco Eco’s Fashion Director, who pulled the collections for the shoot.

Congrats guys and gals!

Coco Eco Magazine [Official Website]

Allison McCarthy from San Francisco’s 7×7 Magazine recently wrote up a blog post on some of our designers who showed at our show in May. McCarthy gave a shout out to four of our students: Amelia Statler, Young Ae Koo, Yuzuan Cheng, and Melody Bainter (pictured).

Thanks for showin’ us some love 7×7!

[Source: 7x7 Glamwatch]

The only good thing about the incredibly shrinking Haute Couture in Paris is that there are far fewer letters to write.

To get an invitation, it is necessary to be accredited to a publication and then write to each house. I write to every one, in case. You can visit www.modeaparis.com to find the schedule, designers and more.

When I started covering Haute Couture, there was Yves Saint Laurent (himself), Hubert de Givenchy (himself), Emanuel Ungaro (himself), Valentino (himself), Gianni Versace (himself), Christian Lacroix (himself) Pierre Cardin (himself), Balmain (Oscar de la Renta), Lanvin (Claude Montana), and of course, the great survivors Christian Dior (John Galliano) and Chanel (Karl Lagerfeld). It was also the time when Carla Bruni Sarkozy, now the First Lady of France, was almost a supermodel.

Carla Bruni modeling Yves Saint Laurent at the Hotel Intercontinental in 1997

The schedule five days or longer. Now, it lasts three days and a fourth day has been allocated to the jewelers on or around Place Vendôme. Read more…

It has been 18 years since Peter Lindbergh last worked for Vogue. In March, we were informed that he would return to the magazine. He said something that I found rather intriguing: “It was like you are the black sheep in the family, and your older brother asks you to come home.”

Lindbergh shot Natalia Vodianova and Ewan McGregor acting out family scenes in a setting that echoed the aesthetic from Mad Men and A Single Man for American Vogue July 2010. Natalia is a lady with many lovers—at least that’s how it is portrayed in the magazine. She has been involved in love stories with everyone from Diddy to Justin Portman (who is now her real-life husband).

The spread’s title was “Magnificent Obsession.” It was Grace Coddington’s interpretation of an everyday family — complete with two kids and two dogs. Even so, it is hard to believe there are many families that wear Louis Vuitton and Dior Homme to go and play outside on the grass. The story says, “The Fall collections’ most vivid moments had all the autumnal brilliance of a 1950s domestic drama.”

Here are some of my favorite images from the spread:

(All photos are from Vogue July 2010)

Follow the jump for more pictures. Read more…

School of Fashion alumna, Elsa Brodmann recently appeared in the New Orleans paper, the Times-Picayune where she talked about her line Ottilie Brodmann and her work in the industry. Here’s a little snippet of what she said in the article:

When Elsa Brodmann was growing up, her parents wouldn’t let her watch much TV. When she did get a chance to settle in front of the small screen, it often was tuned to old movies from the 1950s and ’60s.

“Other girls my age had a crush on Luke Perry. I had a crush on Gene Kelly and James Cagney,” said Brodmann, who changed her name from Jennifer to Elsa a few years ago, in part inspired by one of her favorite designers, Elsa Schiaparelli.

Brodmann’s affection for old-school entertainment explains the vintage aesthetic that runs through her 2-year-old label, Ottilie Brodmann, (pronounced Oh-til-yah) named after her grandmother, a dressmaker in Germany. Photo by: Matthew Hinton/ The Times-Picayune

To read the entire article, click here.

Welcome new fashion students, continuing students, and those of you getting ready for New York Fashion Week who probably never left the building.

Welcome especially to those who will be taking a drawing class this summer, onsite and online. Drawing is my passion and my profession.

On June 7th I saw an exhibition in Vancouver called “The Modern Woman” – works direct from Musée d’Orsay in Paris, by Dégas, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet, Vuillard, Mary Cassatt and more.

On the walls, a clever curator posted important quotes that totally summed up my feelings about art and fashion. (May I remind you that if you are unfamiliar with the names I drop in my blog, please look them up… I mentioned this last week on the subject of research.) Here is the first example. The next two will be on Wednesday and Friday.

“Draw lines… many lines, from memory or from life”
– Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

GPP: And when you pick up your stick of charcoal, don’t hesitate or feather – just draw a beautiful, positive, wicked line – and if it is wrong, so what? Draw another line near to it. Never on top of it. A line on top of another line kills it.

Do you see in shape or line? Or both?

In drawing class, if you are American don’t use an eraser; if you are British, don’t use a rubber! Remember the saying about the United States and Britain — Two Great Nations divided by a Common Language.

Text and drawings by Gladys Perint Palmer, Executive Director, School of Fashion

Click here to read more of “Picture This” by GPP

Steven Oo, an alum who showcased his spiky structured knitwear earlier this year at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week had his work featured in the uber-modern art and culture-centric publication Dimension Magazine.

Congrats Steven!

To check out the entire spread, click here.